Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-06-23
LOCALITY LOCALIZED
The weekly Round Up Of the
Events Of Interest and Inn
portance in the City
and County.
AS Gathered and Prepared for the
Ediflcation and Information
OF The Alert's Numer-
z GUS Readers.
Frances e. willard.


by number Of ladies and gentlemen
and urged to stop over night and deliver
an address today, but concluded to con-
tinue eastward and fill her appointments.
The delay of Mondays Pacific express,
which did not arrive until last evening,
was the cause Of her being unable to
meet her appointment to speak here yes
terday morning. Miss Willard was to
have addressed meeting at Casselton
last night, but will probably 90 through
to Fargo, where she has an appointment
for tonight.
It is greatly regretted that this accom-
plished and celebrated lady was unable
to speak here. Her work and her great
talents have been SO generally applauded
throughout the country that all desire
to hear her on the theme which has be-
come part Of herself, almost, and to
which she has devoted a life unselfshly
and with extraordinary success. just at
this time the following biographical
sketch Of this gifted woman will be read
with interest:
Frances Elizabeth Willard was. born
near Rochester, n. Z, but spent the
greater part Of her childhood on aWiscon-
sin farm. She gave early promise Of her
future literary attMnments, and at the
age Of sixteen took q prize from the Illin-
ois Agricultural society for an essay on
s'Country Homes" Some three years
later she entered the Womans college at
Evanston, Ill, where she not only grad
uated with high honors, but was called
after graduation to the chair OF natural
science. From this she was called to var
ious educational positions Of importance,
and her career as 9 teacher was brilliant
She has been an inspiration to over two
thousand pupils. AT the high tide ofher
intellectual life the Nv. G. z. U., an out
come q the despised temperance
crusades, invited her to- gave
tify herself with their feeble and unpop-
men from drunkard's graves, she
of her nature. Her money, her
time. her fine calture, her strength,
her heart, her soul all were conse-
We 0S3ksO ~SesN1As - 49,
Miss Willard went abroad. During the
three years of her absence she visited
inearlyevery European country, the Holy
Land, the pyramids studied q year at
the College de France and the Petit Sor-
bonne, attended the lectures ofsuch men
as G,uEot- studied in Berlin and Rome,
and arnid the Multiplicity of her duties
found time to write for Ill the most emf
nent ,periodicals,t to every one of which at
one tnne or another she has beeE1 valued
contributor. The work she has person
ally accomplished during the last ten
wears is miraculous. She.has often kept
ten secretaries At work. Some years she
has travelled 10000 miles, writing on the
cars nearly all her speeches and articles
for the press. She has visited every town
IN the United States of 1O00O population.
and many with only 5000, organizing
branches Of the w. G. T.U. For ten
wears she has delivered on an average
speech a day. And not only has she done
all this, work enough to break down ten
women, without any salary .fEGEn the w
g. r. u, the organization providing only
her stationery and postage, but she has
often given SO liherally out M her OWE
privgbs pocket to the work as to depriHs
.hersek Of comforts and even necessities.